From: John Beckett 

"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
news::
> I really don't expect any degrade in this case, at least I hope not --
> there's a lot of computers that don't have internet access (for security
> reasons).  I can't think that Microsoft would make that much of a mistake.

I should read something before shooting my mouth off, but I thought I saw
somewhere that Microsoft have documented that all Vista systems (including
MSDN and VLP) will require periodic validation with MS servers via the
Internet, or with an in-house server ("key management service")
that in turn periodically validates with MS via the Internet. (Or via a
product key manually entered if no network?)

On reflection, Geo's observations may be simply documented behaviour,
although I thought the  validation period was much greater than three days.
Some more methodical testing certainly would be in order (and maybe some
RTFM!).

John

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